User talk:Trappist the monk

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URLs in cite book location fields

Hi, was just looking for your opinion on urls being the published location field of cite book templates after coming across a couple of articles linking to the websites of online publishers. Personally I'd vote never having urls in the location field but I understand you're the CS1 expert so I'll defer to your opinion. Mesidast (talk) 23:50, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

{{cite book}} (and all other cs1|2 templates) accept urls only in url-holding parameters (parameters that include '-url' in the parameter name), the insource locator parameters (|page(s)=, |at=, |quote-page(s)=), and |id=. A url in any other parameter should cause cs1|2 templates to emit an External link in |<parameter>= error message.

If you are finding urls in |location= in cs1|2 templates that are not showing an error message, I would like to know where you are seeing that so that I can investigate and fix that problem.

Trappist the monk (talk) 13:07, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Found the article through the number in location field category actually. I imagine it managed to sneak through the external link check since all the links started with "www." and not "https:". This is the edit of me removing them Mesidast (talk) 11:04, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Trappist the monk!

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Trappist the monk,
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